From Greek for 'master builder, director of works'
From Greek for 'star' and French for 'sailor'
From Greek for 'prizefighter, contestant in the games'
From Old French for 'executioner'
From Old French for 'cup-bearer, officer in charge of wine'
From Scottish form of French for 'one who runs errands'
From Middle English 'buyer of provisions'
From French short form for 'head of the kitchen'
From Old English for 'king's scribe; keeper of accounts'
From the French word for 'Tooth'
From the French verb 'to undertake'
From Medieval Latin for 'study of earthly things'
From Old French for 'to keep, maintain, preserve, protect'
From Latin for 'garden' and 'cultivating, agriculture'
From Old English for 'a virgin, a young unmarried woman'
From Old French 'head of a city or town government'
From Latin 'governess, tutoress, that suckles, nourishes'
From Modern Latin 'pertaining to a midwife'
From Greek for 'seen, visible' and 'measurer of'
From Medieval Greek for 'rudder, helmsman'
From Latin for 'worker in lead (metal)'
From Old English 'female ruler of a state, woman, wife'
From Mishnaic Hebrew 'my master, great one'
From Latin for 'to carve'
From Medieval Latin for 'a cutter of clothes'
From Old English for 'to show, point out, to give instruction'
From Vulgar Latin for 'doorkeeper'
From Latin 'of or having to do with beasts of burden'
From Old English for 'one who produces books or literary compositions'
From Greek for 'animal' and 'study'
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